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UA to corporatize research
New campus conglomerate to make research more efficient, attainable By Lívia Fialho ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT A new UA corporation aims to make campus research more efficient and available to the public. The UA administration is developing the basis of a daughter entity to the UA Foundation . It hopes to increase resources to transition university research into the marketplace. Provost Meredith Hay announced the new UA Research Corporation (UARC) Oct. 28 at the IdeaFunding conference . UARC’s structure has been debated for eight months, said Pat Jones, director of the Office of Technology Transfer. According
to Jones, the development is part of on-going changes in the university’s academic structure by the administration. The corporation’s creation targets the expansion of public-private partnerships. It aims to generate more resources and partners “to help translate discoveries into innovations available for public use,” Jones said. Having an entity separate from the university to attract more resources makes implementing processes simpler, which is the real upside of UARC according to Jones . Translating discoveries into innovations takes a lot of effort, Jones said, and the corporation should broaden the possibilities and make their execution easier.
Possibilities of synergies between departments and new structures are part of that process. Streamlining and making UA entities as efficient as possible is the goal, Jones said. “For example, when we help faculty create start-ups, we’re not able to take equity in (them). So we take a form of stock option. (It’s) cumbersome to implement. Efficiency is obtained by doing things in kind of the most efficient way possible,” he said. Jones’ office, which reports to the Office of the Vice President for Research , will be part of the new structure. Vice President for Research Leslie Tolbert said it’s unclear RESEARCH, page A3
Audience cries over oil spill Journalist describes first-hand experience with desolate families, destruction
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Dahr Jamail, an investigative journalist, speaks about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering building. Jamail spoke of the effects the oil spill had on the environment and the economy.
By Lucy Valencia ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT A lecture on the BP oil spill on Monday had its audience in awe, moving some to tears. UA’s Voices of Opposition , a group that focuses on issues of war, racism and oppression in weekly lectures and films , invited independent investigative journalist Dahr Jamail to report on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A large projector showed the audience photographs of the coast, glassy with oil pollution and depicting inhabitants of coastal areas affected by the spill. Dr. Mary Jo Ghory, one of the program’s coordinators, helped put on the event at 7 p.m., Monday in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering building . Ghory said she “dragged him out here,” after they
had great responses from Jamail’s previous UA appearances where he discussed Iraq issues he reported on. “It’s an important issue and it’s nice to talk about something besides war, yet this one isn’t rainbows
“The Gulf of Mexico disaster is still in its beginning stages … It makes us look square in the face at our oil addiction, and its costs.” — Dahr Jamail Investigative journalist and jelly beans either,” she said. Jamail spoke of how fisherman, seafood
distributors, marine coastal life and families are affected due to the hazardous waters. “I just got back about two days ago from my third trip down there,” Jamail began in his lecture. “I’ve spent two months total down there now, and I can tell you unequivocally that this thing is just beginning.” An elderly woman in the crowd sobbed as Jamail showed images of the damage done to the Gulf because of the oil spill. Jamail described the current conditions of the Gulf as “post-apocalyptic.” He described his first-hand experience in the Gulf region, when he traveled there to report along with his partner, an artist and documentary photographer. “You get down there and the first OIL SPILL, page A3
Student veterans honor holiday By Yael Schusterman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Kim Shroyer ’s typical Veterans Day tradition consists of a juicy steak and a beer, items she can enjoy now that she is no longer in Iraq. Shroyer, age 30, is double majoring in history and gender and women studies; she is also the philanthropic coordinator for the Student Veterans of America chapter on campus, which has gained national recognition. She served in Iraq as a mechanic from October 2005 to 2006. Shroyer said every time someone does something veteran-related, it makes them think about things they do not necessarily want to think about. Because of this feeling, she usually reflects on the annual American holiday honoring military veterans at home with her partner. There are about 1,000 veterans on campus and the club has now been recognized for more than two years, according to Shroyer. It can be hard for veterans to fit it on campus, she said. The UA holds service classes that help students reintegrate, called Supportive Education for Returning Veterans. She recalls taking a Vietnam class and a student speaking out saying that the soldiers were evil, to which she replied, “The soldiers did things they were not supposed to have done and they should be held accountable for that, but you can’t judge someone until you know what it is like to die in war or fear for your life.” She said it can be difficult to relate to some students because of her life experiences, but what is most important to her is that people have respect. Matt Randle, director of the Veterans Services Office, served in Iraq from 1998 to 2003 as a medic, said that Veterans Day is not just about sales in retail stores. For generations, less than 1 percent of people in this country took a responsibility of defending our freedom to get an education and have political VETERANS, page A3
Studio: Rock on campus By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT On Olive Street, past Crowder Hall and down Stairwell B, lies the basement of the UA Music building and what Jeff Haskell calls the place he would spend his entire life. Room 57 is a “laboratory for production, for improvisation, for making decisions on the spot,” a basement and the UA’s School of Music recording studio.
“The studio is an omnivorous animal, it eats everything,” said Haskell , professor in the UA’s School of Music and director of the recording studio . January marks the studio’s 30th year in giving students the professional recording experience for the admission price of a professor ’s signature and the careful guiding hand of Wiley Ross .
The Music Slide
Affectionately called “the music slide,” unfinished con-
COMING FRIDAY
Rec Center drained
crete and a quick prayer sends students the quick way down to the basement and behind a coded door, wherein lies Haskell’s favorite place – and one of the only of its kind in the nation. “If I was to name a place that I would rather spend the rest of my life, it would be the music studio,” Haskell said. “It is the only place to gain the most pristine musical environment that there is. That’s the way I’ve always lived and that is what
The Daily Wildcat breaks down the process for draining and recycling the pool water
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Kyle Wilson, a marketing senior, prepares for a recording session in the Music building’s recording studio on Tuesday. The studio, open to all UA students, is often utilized by music majors to record themselves for classes.
“The Canary Effect” movie and speaker on the detrimental effects of United States’ policy on Native Americans, at the UA College of Law, 5 p.m.
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